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1944-12-18Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment
war-powers supreme-court judicial-capture +3
1944-11-07Arkansas and Florida Become First States to Pass Right-to-Work Laws Through Racist, Anti-Semitic Campaign
labor-suppression right-to-work corporate-funding +3
1944-07-21Democratic Convention Ousts Henry Wallace, Party Bosses Install Truman
corporate-influence political-manipulation elite-networks +2
1944-07-17Port Chicago Disaster and Black Sailors Mutiny Conviction
civil-rights institutional-racism military-justice +2
1944-07-01Bretton Woods Conference Establishes Dollar Hegemony Through IMF and World Bank
structural-adjustment international-finance dollar-hegemony +2
1944-06-22GI Bill Passed with Discriminatory State Implementation Enabling Racial Wealth Gap
housing-policy education-policy racial-discrimination +2
1944-04-03Smith v. Allwright: Supreme Court Strikes Down White Primaries, Opening Democratic Party to Black Voters
supreme-court civil-rights voting-rights +3
1943-07-01Curtiss-Wright Exposed for Supplying Defective Aircraft Engines to Military
congressional-oversight corporate-impunity war-profiteering +2
1943-06-25Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs
campaign-finance labor-suppression union-busting +3
1943-06-20Detroit Race Riot Exposes Housing Segregation and War Production Tensions
civil-rights institutional-racism racial-violence +2
1943-04-08Hold the Line Order Freezes Wages While Corporate Profits Soar
economic-inequality labor-policy wage-suppression +2
1943-01-01American Enterprise Association Moves to Washington to Oppose New Deal, Precursor to AEI Think Tank
conservative-movement think-tanks corporate-funding +3
1942-12-21Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment
institutional-capture corporate-impunity war-profiteering +1
1942-10-20Alien Property Custodian Seizes Bush-Thyssen Nazi Banking Assets
institutional-corruption elite-impunity banking +2
1942-09-01Committee for Economic Development Founded as Business-Government Policy Coordination Body
institutional-capture corporate-lobbying policy-coordination +2
1942-08-04Bracero Program Begins 22-Year Guest Worker Exploitation System
human-rights corporate-capture labor-exploitation +2
1942-06-13Office of Strategic Services Created, Wall Street Lawyers Build Intelligence Apparatus
national-security-state elite-networks covert-operations +2
1942-04-28Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance
regulatory-capture corporate-influence war-profiteering +2
1942-03-26Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason
regulatory-capture war-profiteering nazi-collaboration +3
1942-02-19Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment
civil-liberties constitutional-violation executive-overreach +3
1942-01-16War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model
institutional-capture revolving-door war-profiteering +2
1942-01-12National War Labor Board Established, No-Strike Pledge Constrains Unions
corporate-influence labor-policy wage-suppression +2
1942-01-01Bracero Program Wage Theft - Wells Fargo Transfers $32 Million That Disappears in Mexico
institutional-corruption financial-fraud corporate-complicity +2
1941-05-06FCC Establishes Television Ownership Limit of Three Stations to Prevent Media Monopoly Concentration
antitrust fcc ownership-limits +3
1941-04-17Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant Built with Taxpayer Funds, Private Profits
military-industrial-complex war-profiteering defense-industry +2
1941-03-01Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering
congressional-oversight war-profiteering defense-industry +1
1940-10-08Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes
regulatory-capture corporate-influence war-profiteering +2
1940-06-28Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution
first-amendment civil-liberties labor-suppression +3
1940-01-01WWII Corporate Profits Soar 113% as Cost-Plus Contracts Enable Massive War Profiteering
corporate-power war-profiteering defense-industry +2
1939-11-04Neutrality Act Revised to Allow Arms Sales on Cash-and-Carry Basis, Enabling Corporate War Profits
military-industrial-complex war-profiteering corporate-profit +2
1939-08-02Hatch Act Restricts Federal Workers' Political Activity After Allegations of WPA Election Interference
new-deal civil-service political-activity +2
1939-02-27Supreme Court Rules in NLRB v. Fansteel That Sit-Down Strikers Can Be Lawfully Fired Despite Employer Violations
supreme-court labor-rights wagner-act +2
1938-07-30Henry Ford Receives Nazi Grand Cross of the German Eagle on 75th Birthday, Hitler's Highest Honor for Foreigners
antisemitism fascism corporate-collaboration +2
1938-06-25Fair Labor Standards Act Passes Over Fierce Business and Southern Opposition to Minimum Wage and Child Labor Ban
new-deal labor-rights corporate-resistance +2
1938-06-16Temporary National Economic Committee Launches Comprehensive Investigation of Monopoly and Economic Concentration
new-deal antitrust monopoly +2
1938-05-26Dies Committee (HUAC) Formed by Conservative Democrats to Discredit New Deal as Communist Infiltration
new-deal red-scare anti-communism +2
1938-04-29FDR Warns Congress That Concentrated Corporate Power Threatens American Democracy with Fascism
corporate-power new-deal antitrust +3
1938-01-01FHA Underwriting Manual Formalizes Racial Covenants, Physical Segregation
institutional-capture systematic-corruption racial-oppression +1
1937-07-22Senate Defeats FDR Court-Packing Plan 70-22, Handing Roosevelt His Greatest Legislative Defeat
congressional-opposition separation-of-powers supreme-court +3
1937-06-19Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation
new-deal labor-rights strike +3
1937-06-01IBM's Thomas Watson Receives Nazi Merit Cross of the German Eagle as IBM Profits from Punch Card Technology
technology corporate-collaboration nazism +2
1937-05-30Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago Police Kill Ten Strikers and Wound 90 at Republic Steel Using Corporate-Supplied Weapons
corporate-power labor-rights state-violence +2
1937-05-26Battle of the Overpass - Ford Motor Company Thugs Brutally Attack UAW Organizers in Planned Assault at River Rouge
labor-rights union-busting corporate-violence +4
1937-05-01Roosevelt Recession Begins After Conservative Treasury Secretary Persuades FDR to Cut Spending 17 Percent
new-deal austerity economic-policy +2
1937-04-12NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel - Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act in Constitutional Revolution
supreme-court new-deal labor-rights +3
1937-03-29West Coast Hotel v. Parrish - "Switch in Time" Supreme Court Upholds State Minimum Wage Law
supreme-court new-deal labor-rights +3
1937-02-11General Motors Capitulates to UAW After 44-Day Flint Sit-Down Strike, Recognizing Union in Historic Labor Victory
labor-rights strike collective-bargaining +4
1937-02-05FDR Announces Judicial Reorganization Plan to Add Up to Six Supreme Court Justices, Triggering Court-Packing Crisis
separation-of-powers supreme-court judicial-capture +3
1937-01-11Battle of the Running Bulls - Flint Police and GM Security Forces Attack Sit-Down Strikers with Tear Gas and Gunfire
labor-rights strike corporate-violence +4
1936-12-30UAW Autoworkers Launch Historic Flint Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors, Occupying Fisher Body Plants
labor-rights strike corporate-resistance +4
1936-09-01Mohawk Valley Formula Exposed as Corporate Blueprint for Breaking Unions and Evading Wagner Act
new-deal propaganda labor-suppression +3
1936-06-19Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power
corporate-power regulatory-capture antitrust +2
1936-06-06La Follette Civil Liberties Committee Begins Investigation Exposing Corporate Union-Busting and Industrial Espionage
labor-rights union-busting congressional-investigation +2
1936-01-25Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Smith Delivers Vitriolic Anti-Roosevelt Speech at Liberty League Dinner
new-deal propaganda corporate-resistance +3
1936-01-15La Follette Committee Exposes Pinkerton and Burns Detective Agencies' Massive Labor Espionage Network
labor-rights labor-surveillance corporate-espionage +2
1936-01-06Supreme Court Strikes Down Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler, Invalidating Key New Deal Farm Program
supreme-court judicial-capture new-deal +3
1935-11-09Congress of Industrial Organizations Founded, Challenges AFL Craft Unionism
labor-organizing democratic-resistance worker-power
1935-09-08Huey Long Assassinated, Ending "Share Our Wealth" Challenge to Both Corporate Power and New Deal Moderation
wealth-redistribution populism political-assassination +2
1935-08-30Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes
wealth-redistribution new-deal economic-policy +3
1935-08-26Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies
new-deal energy-policy corporate-restructuring +3
1935-08-23Banking Act of 1935 Restructures Federal Reserve, Reduces Wall Street Influence Over Monetary Policy
new-deal federal-reserve corporate-resistance +3
1935-08-14Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition
new-deal labor-rights corporate-resistance +2
1935-07-05Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining
new-deal labor-rights wagner-act +3
1935-05-27"Black Monday" Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down National Industrial Recovery Act in Three Anti-New Deal Rulings
separation-of-powers supreme-court judicial-capture +3
1935-05-11Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve
new-deal utility-regulation public-power +2
1935-01-01National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign
institutional-capture new-deal propaganda +3
1934-11-20Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR
institutional-capture new-deal military-industrial-complex +3
1934-08-22American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal
institutional-capture new-deal propaganda +4
1934-07-02Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street
new-deal regulatory-capture revolving-door +2
1934-06-27Federal Housing Administration Created, Institutionalizes Racial Segregation
institutional-capture systematic-corruption racial-oppression +1
1934-06-19Communications Act of 1934 Creates FCC and Consolidates Federal Media Regulation Under Public Interest Standard
new-deal fcc media-regulation +3
1934-06-16Pecora Commission Issues Final Report on Wall Street Corruption
congressional-oversight corporate-accountability financial-regulation +1
1934-06-06Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets
new-deal financial-regulation securities-law +3
1934-04-12Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"
corporate-corruption military-industrial-complex war-profiteering +2
1934-01-30Gold Reserve Act Nationalizes Gold Holdings and Devalues Dollar Over Wall Street Opposition
new-deal corporate-resistance financial-regulation +2
1933-06-16National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation
new-deal regulatory-capture labor-rights +2
1933-06-13Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework
institutional-capture housing racial-oppression +2
1933-05-27Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation
new-deal financial-regulation securities-law +3
1933-05-24J.P. Morgan Jr. Testifies, Preferred List and Tax Evasion Exposed
tax-evasion corporate-accountability political-corruption +2
1933-05-23Pecora Commission Exposes Albert Wiggin's Short Selling of Chase Bank Stock
tax-evasion banking-fraud corporate-accountability +2
1933-05-18Tennessee Valley Authority Created as Public Power Alternative to Private Utility Monopolies
new-deal corporate-resistance utility-regulation +2
1933-03-31Civilian Conservation Corps Created as First Federal Youth Employment Program
new-deal employment conservation +2
1933-03-09Emergency Banking Act Passes in Eight Hours to Stabilize Collapsing Banking System
new-deal banking-crisis emergency-powers +1
1933-03-06FDR Declares National Bank Holiday, Closing All Banks to Stop Collapse of Financial System
new-deal banking-crisis great-depression +2
1933-02-21Charles Mitchell Testifies Before Pecora Commission, Resigns in Disgrace
congressional-oversight tax-evasion banking-fraud +2
1933-01-15Ferdinand Pecora Appointed Chief Counsel to Senate Banking Investigation
congressional-oversight corporate-accountability financial-regulation +1
1932-07-28MacArthur Uses Tanks and Tear Gas to Violently Suppress Bonus Army of 43,000 Veterans
civil-liberties veterans state-violence +2
1932-03-02Senate Banking Committee Launches Investigation into Wall Street Crash
congressional-oversight corporate-accountability great-depression +1
1931-07-20Albert Fall Enters Prison as First Cabinet Member Incarcerated for Felony Crimes
political-corruption institutional-accountability criminal-prosecution +1
1931-06-01Banking Crisis Accelerates with 2,300 Bank Failures in 1931 as Hoover Resists Federal Intervention
financial-crisis great-depression banking +2
1930-06-17Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act Enacts Corporate Protectionism Despite Economist Warnings
lobbying corporate-resistance trade-policy +2
1929-10-25Albert Fall Convicted of Bribery - First Cabinet Member Imprisoned for Crimes in Office
political-corruption institutional-accountability criminal-prosecution +1
1929-08-01Investment Trust Leverage Pyramids Reach Unsustainable Peak
systematic-corruption speculation financial-deregulation +1
1929-03-31Bernays "Torches of Freedom" Campaign Uses Feminism to Sell Cigarettes
propaganda corporate-influence public-relations +2
1929-02-02Federal Reserve Warns Against Speculation But Takes No Effective Action
institutional-capture regulatory-failure banking +1
1928-08-27Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War While Preserving Imperial Prerogatives
institutional-capture foreign-policy imperialism +1
1928-01-01Margin Buying Explosion Enables Rampant Stock Market Speculation
systematic-corruption wealth-concentration speculation +1
1927-09-18CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape
institutional-capture media-consolidation corporate-consolidation +1
1927-08-23Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings
judicial-capture civil-liberties labor-suppression +3
1927-05-02Supreme Court Endorses Forced Sterilization in Buck v. Bell Eugenics Decision
supreme-court judicial-capture civil-liberties +2